In the present study, aluminum toxicity was induced by dailyi.p. administration of aluminum lactate at a dose of 10 mg/kg i.p.for 4 weeks. Moreover, the current aluminum dose administeredto rats per day, which is for humans of 70 kg, would correspondto 700 mg aluminum/day. It is important to remark that aluminumdose administered in this study is not far from the doses ingestedby certain persons chronically consuming aluminum-containingantacids, or buffered aspirins, as important sources of human alu-minum exposure